Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-05
AMATEUR BULL FIGHTING.
It Helps Relieve the Extreme Dizziness of
Mexican Hacienda Life.

The other day there was an amateur
bull fight on an estate forty miles from
this city, to which some young men were
invited from among our gilded youth.
The city boys went in their natt;est charro
costumes, all bebraided with silver and
ornamentt ! with buttons of the same
material. To one of the city visitors. a
thin man, was delegated the work of
arranging the ring. which was made Of
carts in which the spectators were to sit.
The thin man arranged the carts in a
circle giving room for himself to pass
between the vehicles. the idea being to
let the amateur performers have a chance
to escape should the bull he too lively for
them.
The afternoon of the performance came,
and all the hacienda people and the city
visitors climbed into the carts, one cart
being occupied by young men who. with
short sticks in hand. affected to be the
musicians of the grand taurine tourna-
ment They whistled national airs and
ballad pieces, going through many manip-
ulations of their supposed brass instru-
ments, and added much to the fun
of the whole affair. BY and by
the bull a smart young steer, was
driven into the ring. The occupants
of the carts greeted him with shouts,
which confused him little, but he soon
recovered himself, and his eye picked out
the hacendado himself, stout man with
fat legs, who was anxious to show his city
guests that he was something of bull
fighter himself. The steer made for our
fat friend, and gave him some opportuni-
ties to display his running and lodging
qualities, but at last, getting too much in
earnest, the steer rushed after the heavy
weight performer, who, to his horror,
found that the openings between the carts,
as arranged by his thin friend. would not
permit an escape. 1t was now a question
of staying in the ring and getting badly
gored or vaulting the line of carts. The
occupants of the vehicles We're wild with
fun to see the steer rushing and lunging
at the painting fat hacendado, who finally,
as by miracle, jumped cart and es-
capped his bovine foe.
Next. lively city visitor, dressed in
his finest, essayed to show his points as
an amateur bull fighter. He entered the
ring amid applause from the spectators,
cut few capers with the bull, and ended
by vaulting upon the animal back, and,
holding on by the horns, had a smart
rush around the ring But, alas the
bull suddenly stopped in his mad flight,
and the city youth found himself flung
face down into the soft and dirty mud
of the ring. The young bull, satisfied
with this measure of victory over his
tormentor, magnanimously let him off
without further punishment. Next some
one else tried the bull circus business,
and got the lively young bull so wild that
he made leap for the cart in which the
amateur musicians We're whstling and
capering with their dummy instruments.
| Every man of them in the cart pro-
ceeded to tumble out on the off side, and
they got to the ground in confused
heap. 1t was agreed all around after all
was over, that the lively steer had shown
himself worthy of the steel of a Nlazzan-
TIM or Ponciany Diaz.
The other afternoon, at one of the
great city rings, bull got a Derby hat
flung into the ring over his eyes, anC
made a most ludicrous exhibition rushing
blindly around.-Cor. Boston Herald.